Bolt to be nominated for Pastors’ Conference president
INDIANAPOLIS (BP) — It has been announced that Chris Bolt, pastor of theology and apologetics at Village Church in North Chesterfield, Va., will be nominated to be the 2025 SBC Pastors’ Conference president.
Pastors’ Conference intangibles to join messages on God’s faithfulness
INDIANAPOLIS (BP) — Stephen Rummage remembers the benefits he received as a young pastor from the SBC Pastors’ Conference. He wants those same blessings experienced by attendees during this year’s conference.
GCR Evaluation Task Force releases report, recommendations to come
NASHVILLE (BP) — Did the Great Commission Resurgence accomplish its goal of reversing the decline of baptisms in the Southern Baptist Convention?
Disaster Relief teams across several states respond to spring storms
COLUMBIA Tenn. (BP) — At least one death can be attributed to the tornado that tore through Middle Tennessee on Wednesday, part of a storm system that brought at least 13 tornadoes, softball-sized hail, flooding and wind gusts up to 72 mph from Kansas to the Carolinas.
‘Galling lack of concern’ at the center of W.Va. transgender athlete controversy, church says
BRIDGEPORT, West Va. (BP) — Simpson Creek Baptist Church’s record in defending free speech goes back further than the United States itself.
Fifth circuit asks Texas Supreme Court to weigh in on Roe v. Patterson, SWBTS
NEW ORLEANS (BP) – The appeal of the dismissal of a civil suit against Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary (SWBTS) and its former president, Paige Patterson, is now involving the Texas Supreme Court.
Annual Meeting Sunday prayer gathering, prayer room to feature changes
INDIANAPOLIS (BP) — Several additions and changes to the Sunday prayer service and prayer room at the upcoming annual meeting will reinforce its importance to the Southern Baptist Convention and its churches, the SBC’s national director of prayer Kie Bowman told Baptist Press.
Longtime church employee arrested for child porn
ROSWELL, Ga. (BP) — An employee of Dunwoody Baptist Church was arrested April 24 after detectives executed a search warrant at his home that turned up child sex abuse material.
Wesley Russell, pastor de Kentucky, será propuesto para segundo vicepresidente de la SBC
CINCINNATI (BP) — Michael Clary, pastor de Christ the King Church en Cincinnati, anunció hoy (29 de abril) su intención de nominar a Wesley Russell, pastor de Immanuel Baptist Church en Pikeville, Kentucky, para segundo vicepresidente de la Convención Bautista del Sur en la reunión anual de junio. Clary hizo el anuncio en X, acompañado de un video de él en el que hablaba con Russell.
SBC’s Cooperation Group releases recommendations
NASHVILLE (BP) — Four recommendations released today are designed to “prioritize and emphasize the authority of messengers in defining the boundaries of our cooperation while clarifying and refining our structure,” said a statement from the SBC’s Cooperation Group. The group was tasked at last summer’s annual meeting to study the issue of what makes a church “to be in friendly cooperation of faith and practice” with the Southern Baptist Convention.
